Daniel Lebhardt

Pianist

Pianist Daniel Lebhardt has been described by the New York Times as playing with ‘…power, poetry and formidable technique’. 

A regular guest of Wigmore Hall, after two successful recitals last season Daniel will return there in February for a solo recital featuring the music of Liszt, Shostakovich and Chopin, a programme he will also perform at his return to Con Brio Sligo Festival in Ireland in the 26/27 season. He will also return to the Nottingham International Piano Festival and Oxshott & Cobham Concert Series. Last season Daniel had his solo debut at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival, gave concerts across the UK and performed for the first time in New Zealand for “At the World`s Edge” Festival. Other recital highlights include debuts at Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Aldeburgh, Heidelberger-Frühling, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, Tallinn, Lucerne and Drogheda international festivals. He has given concerts at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff, Bath International Festival, Brighton Dome, Saffron Hall, Auditorium du Louvre,  L’Eglise Saint Germain in Paris as part of the Week-end à l’Est Festival, Oxford and Birmingham International Piano Festivals and gave concerts in Canada, China, Japan, Colombia, Argentina and Chile. 

Last season saw Daniel return to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in Guildford, and for Mozart’s Piano Concerto K.467 at Royal Festival Hall.  He also recently performed with Konzerthausorchester Berlin in Liszt’s Totentanz and made his debut with Bilkent Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 and appeared with the Hallé Orchestra, Venice Symphony (Florida) and National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv, where he was lucky to be able to return to give a recital on Liszt`s birthday in October 2023. 

Daniel has performed widely in the US, giving recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Gardner Museum in Boston, Morgan Library and Merkin Concert Hall in New York and in Florida, Seattle, Arizona and Pittsburgh. Concerto highlights include performances of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Auburn and Dearborn Symphony Orchestras in Washington and Michigan. 

An avid chamber musician, Daniel regularly collaborates with Benjamin Baker and the Castalian Quartet, and is a member of the Northern Chords Ensemble founded by Jonathan Bloxham. Him and Benjamin will be playing this December at the Drogheda International Festival, which will be their debut there as a duo. Last season they returned for a tour of Argentina, and performed together at Wigmore Hall as well. Daniel has also worked with Mark van de Wiel, Jonathan McGovern, Charlotte Scott, Alice Neary, Brian O`Kane, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad and Timothy Ridout, among others. He took part in the BBC Proms Composer Portrait of Olga Neuwirth broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and has also worked with composers Matthew Kaner, Brian Elias and Stephen Hough. 

Daniel and Benjamin Baker have recently released two critically acclaimed albums with Delphian focusing on music of the 20th century. Daniel was given the opportunity to release a selection of Schubert solo piano works with NAXOS. He has won multiple international prizes including 1st Prize at the Young Concert Artists auditions in Paris and New York. A year later he was invited to record music by Bartók for Decca and in 2016 won the Most Promising Pianist prize at the Sydney International Competition. 

Born in Hungary, Daniel studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with István Gulyás and Gyöngyi Keveházi and at the Royal Academy of Music with Pascal Nemirovski. He was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2015 and graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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